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Recent advances in deep generative models have shown promising potential in image inpanting, which refers to the task of predicting missing pixel values of an incomplete image using the known context. However, existing methods can be slow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Chao Yang , Yuhang Song , Xiaofeng Liu , Qingming Tang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

High-quality underwater images are essential for both machine vision tasks and viewers with their aesthetic appeal.However, the quality of underwater images is severely affected by light absorption and scattering. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jiangzhong Cao , Zekai Zeng , Xu Zhang , Huan Zhang , Chunling Fan , Gangyi Jiang , Weisi Lin

Underwater object detection faces the problem of underwater image degradation, which affects the performance of the detector. Underwater object detection methods based on noise reduction and image enhancement usually do not provide images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhuoyan Liu , Bo Wang , Ye Li , Jiaxian He , Yunfeng Li

To improve the quality of underwater images, various kinds of underwater image enhancement (UIE) operators have been proposed during the past few years. However, the lack of effective objective evaluation methods limits the further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhenqi Fu , Xueyang Fu , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

Visual recognition under adverse conditions is a very important and challenging problem of high practical value, due to the ubiquitous existence of quality distortions during image acquisition, transmission, or storage. While deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ding Liu , Bowen Cheng , Zhangyang Wang , Haichao Zhang , Thomas S. Huang

The degradation in the underwater images is due to wavelength-dependent light attenuation, scattering, and to the diversity of the water types in which they are captured. Deep neural networks take a step in this field, providing autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Niki Martinel

Low visual quality has prevented underwater robotic vision from a wide range of applications. Although several algorithms have been developed, real-time and adaptive methods are deficient for real-world tasks. In this paper, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Xingyu Chen , Junzhi Yu , Shihan Kong , Zhengxing Wu , Xi Fang , Li Wen

In this paper, we propose a novel conditional-generative-adversarial-nets-based image captioning framework as an extension of traditional reinforcement-learning (RL)-based encoder-decoder architecture. To deal with the inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Chen Chen , Shuai Mu , Wanpeng Xiao , Zexiong Ye , Liesi Wu , Qi Ju

We present a deep residual network-based generative model for single image super-resolution (SISR) of underwater imagery for use by autonomous underwater robots. We also provide an adversarial training pipeline for learning SISR from paired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Md Jahidul Islam , Sadman Sakib Enan , Peigen Luo , Junaed Sattar

Image retrieval is a crucial research topic in computer vision, with broad application prospects ranging from online product searches to security surveillance systems. In recent years, the accuracy and efficiency of image retrieval have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Kim Jinwoo

This paper presents a generative adversarial network (GAN) based approach for radar image enhancement. Although radar sensors remain robust for operations under adverse weather conditions, their application in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Thakshila Thilakanayake , Oscar De Silva , Thumeera R. Wanasinghe , George K. Mann , Awantha Jayasiri

Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is vital for high-level vision-related underwater tasks. Although learning-based UIE methods have made remarkable achievements in recent years, it's still challenging for them to consistently deal with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Junjie Wen , Jinqiang Cui , Zhenjun Zhao , Ruixin Yan , Zhi Gao , Lihua Dou , Ben M. Chen

Underwater video enhancement (UVE) aims to improve the visibility and frame quality of underwater videos, which has significant implications for marine research and exploration. However, existing methods primarily focus on developing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dazhao Du , Enhan Li , Lingyu Si , Fanjiang Xu , Jianwei Niu

We present an extension to masked autoencoders (MAE) which improves on the representations learnt by the model by explicitly encouraging the learning of higher scene-level features. We do this by: (i) the introduction of a perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Samyakh Tukra , Frederick Hoffman , Ken Chatfield

Underwater images typically suffer from severe colour distortions, low visibility, and reduced structural clarity due to complex optical effects such as scattering and absorption, which greatly degrade their visual quality and limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Chang Huang , Jiahang Cao , Jun Ma , Kieren Yu , Cong Li , Huayong Yang , Kaishun Wu

Visually-guided underwater robots are deployed alongside human divers for cooperative exploration, inspection, and monitoring tasks in numerous shallow-water and coastal-water applications. The most essential capability of such companion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Md Jahidul Islam

The image processing community has witnessed remarkable advances in enhancing and restoring images. Nevertheless, restoring the visual quality of underwater images remains a great challenge. End-to-end frameworks might fail to enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Walysson Vital Barbosa , Henrique Grandinetti Barbosa Amaral , Thiago Lages Rocha , Erickson Rangel Nascimento

Interest in automatic people re-identification systems has significantly grown in recent years, mainly for developing surveillance and smart shops software. Due to the variability in person posture, different lighting conditions, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Victor Uc-Cetina , Laura Alvarez-Gonzalez , Anabel Martin-Gonzalez

Learning-based underwater image enhancement (UIE) methods have made great progress. However, the lack of large-scale and high-quality paired training samples has become the main bottleneck hindering the development of UIE. The inter-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yaofeng Xie , Lingwei Kong , Kai Chen , Ziqiang Zheng , Xiao Yu , Zhibin Yu , Bing Zheng

Underwater images often exhibit poor quality, distorted color balance and low contrast due to the complex and intricate interplay of light, water, and objects. Despite the significant contributions of previous underwater enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Weiwen Chen , Yingtie Lei , Shenghong Luo , Ziyang Zhou , Mingxian Li , Chi-Man Pun